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Good morning! 😎 Today, a reminder that Modernism didn’t just happen in the US and Europe, disability rights activist Emily Ladau explains “supported storytelling,” and Michael Press says the British Museum isn’t doing enough to fight illegal antiquities trafficking. Also, this wild collage mashes up media images from Trump’s presidency into a Bosch-like scene. The artist, Chris Santa Maria, has been working on it since 2016.– Elisa Wouk Almino, senior editor

A Collage of Images from Trump's Presidency

Chris Santa Maria, “PRESIDENT TRUMP” (2016 – 2020), paper collage on canvas, 72 x 72 inches

At eye level, artist Chris Santa Maria’s six-foot-high collage “PRESIDENT TRUMP”, currently on view at Jim Kempner Fine Art, depicts a gargantuan figure hovering above a densely populated landscape. However, a closer look reveals thousands of individual photographs meticulously cut out from newspapers, magazines and internet print-outs in the last four years. Every element has been culled from the unsettlingly familiar visual torrent of Trump’s presidency.In Other NewsOver 60 artists have contributed to Project 270, an initiative by Mana Urban Arts Project, to engage young, disenfranchised voters nationwide.The Museum of Islamic Art’s intended sale of 255 items, planned for Sotheby’s in London, is postponed to November.A new app uses augmented reality technology to transform the Met’s Sackler Wing into a memorial site for Mariah Lotti, who lost her life to opioid addiction.

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